The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Ohio since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976.[1]
All of the following people have been executed for murder since the Gregg v. Georgia decision. All 56 were executed by lethal injection.[2] However, any future execution will no longer be performed using this method, due to a ruling by Governor Mike DeWine in December 2020.[3] Notable persons executed in Ohio before the Gregg decision include Anna Marie Hahn.
No. | Name | Race | Age | Sex | Date of execution | County | Method | Victim(s) | Governor |
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1 | Wilford Berry Jr. | White | 36 | M | February 19, 1999 | Cuyahoga | Lethal injection | Charles Mitroff | Bob Taft |
2 | Jay D. Scott | Black | 48 | M | June 14, 2001 | Vinnie M. Price | |||
3 | John William Byrd Jr. | White | 38 | M | February 19, 2002 | Hamilton | Monte Tewksbury | ||
4 | Alton Coleman | Black | 46 | M | April 26, 2002 | Tonnie Storey and Marlene Walters | |||
5 | Robert Anthony Buell | White | 62 | M | September 25, 2002 | Wayne | Krista Harrison[a] | ||
6 | Richard Edwin Fox | White | 47 | M | February 12, 2003 | Wood | Leslie Renae Keckler | ||
7 | David M. Brewer | White | 44 | M | April 29, 2003 | Greene | Sherry Byrne | ||
8 | Ernest Martin | Black | 42 | M | June 18, 2003 | Cuyahoga | Robert Robinson | ||
9 | Lewis Williams Jr. | Black | 45 | M | January 14, 2004 | Leoma Chmielewski | |||
10 | John Glenn Roe | White | 41 | M | February 3, 2004 | Franklin | Donette Crawford | ||
11 | William Dean Wickline Jr. | White | 52 | M | March 30, 2004 | Peggy Lerch and Christopher Lerch | |||
12 | William Gerald Zuern Jr. | White | 45 | M | June 8, 2004 | Hamilton | Hamilton County Deputy Sheriff Phillip Pence | ||
13 | Stephen Allen Vrabel | White | 47 | M | July 14, 2004 | Mahoning | Susan Clemente and Lisa Clemente | ||
14 | Scott Andrew Mink | White | 40 | M | July 20, 2004 | Montgomery | William Mink and Sheila Mink | ||
15 | Adremy Dennis | Black | 28 | M | October 13, 2004 | Summit | Kurt Kyle | ||
16 | William Smith | Black | 47 | M | March 8, 2005 | Hamilton | Mary Bradford | ||
17 | Herman Dale Ashworth | White | 32 | M | September 27, 2005 | Licking | Daniel L. Baker | ||
18 | William James "Flip" Williams Jr. | Black | 48 | M | October 25, 2005 | Summit | 4 murder victims[b] | ||
19 | John R. Hicks | Black | 49 | M | November 29, 2005 | Hamilton | Brandy Green and Maxine Armstrong | ||
20 | Glenn Lee Benner II | White | 43 | M | February 7, 2006 | Summit | Trina Bowser and Cynthia Sedgwick | ||
21 | Joseph Lewis Clark | Black | 57 | M | May 2, 2006 | Lucas | David A. Manning and Donald B. Harris | ||
22 | Rocky Barton | White | 49 | M | July 12, 2006 | Warren | Kimbirli Jo Barton | ||
23 | Darrell Wayne Ferguson | White | 28 | M | August 8, 2006 | Montgomery | Thomas King, Arlie Fugate, and Mae Fugate | ||
24 | Jeffrey Lundgren | White | 56 | M | October 24, 2006 | Lake | 5 murder victims[c] | ||
25 | James J. Filiaggi | White | 41 | M | April 24, 2007 | Lorain | Lisa Huff Filiaggi | Ted Strickland | |
26 | Christopher Newton | White | 37 | M | May 24, 2007 | Richland | Jason Brewer | ||
27 | Richard Cooey | White | 41 | M | October 14, 2008 | Summit | Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery | ||
28 | Gregory Bryant-Bey | Black | 53 | M | November 19, 2008 | Dale Pinkelman and Pete Mihas | |||
29 | Daniel E. Wilson | White | 39 | M | June 3, 2009 | Lorain | Carol Lutz | ||
30 | John Joseph Fautenberry | White | 46 | M | July 14, 2009 | Hamilton | 5 murder victims[d] | ||
31 | Marvallous Keene[4] | Black | 36 | M | July 21, 2009 | Montgomery | 6 murder victims[e] | ||
32 | Jason Getsy | White | 33 | M | August 18, 2009 | Trumbull | Ann Serafino | ||
33 | Kenneth Biros | White | 51 | M | December 8, 2009 | Tami Engstrom | |||
34 | Vernon Lamont Smith | Black | 37 | M | January 7, 2010 | Lucas | Sohail Darwish | ||
35 | Mark Aaron Brown | Black | 37 | M | February 4, 2010 | Mahoning | Hayder Al-Turk and Isam Salman | ||
36 | Lawrence Raymond Reynolds | White | 43 | M | March 16, 2010 | Summit | Loretta Foster | ||
37 | Darryl M. Durr | Black | 46 | M | April 20, 2010 | Cuyahoga | Angel Vincent | ||
38 | Michael Francis Beuke | White | 48 | M | May 13, 2010 | Hamilton | Robert Craig | ||
39 | William Garner | Black | 37 | M | July 13, 2010 | 5 murder victims[f] | |||
40 | Roderick Davie | Black | 38 | M | August 10, 2010 | Trumbull | John Ira Coleman and Tracey Jeffreys | ||
41 | Michael W. Benge | White | 49 | M | October 6, 2010 | Butler | Judith Gabbard | ||
42 | Frank G. Spisak Jr. | White | 59 | M | February 17, 2011 | Cuyahoga | Rev. Horace Rickerson, Brian Warford, and Timothy Sheehan | John Kasich | |
43 | Johnnie Roy Baston | Black | 37 | M | March 10, 2011 | Lucas | Chong-Hoon Mah | ||
44 | Clarence Carter | Black | 49 | M | April 12, 2011 | Hamilton | Johnny Allen | ||
45 | Daniel Lee Bedford | White | 63 | M | May 17, 2011 | Gwen Toepfert and John Smith | |||
46 | Reginald Brooks Sr. | Black | 66 | M | November 15, 2011 | Cuyahoga | Reginald Brooks Jr., Vaughn Brooks, and Niarchos Brooks | ||
47 | Mark Wayne Wiles | White | 49 | M | April 18, 2012 | Portage | Mark Klima | ||
48 | Donald L. Palmer | White | 47 | M | September 20, 2012 | Belmont | Charles Sponhaltz and Steven Vargo | ||
49 | Brett Xavier Hartman | White | 38 | M | November 13, 2012 | Summit | Winda Snipes | ||
50 | Frederick Treesh | White | 48 | M | March 6, 2013 | Lake | Henry Dupree | ||
51 | Steven T. Smith | White | 46 | M | May 1, 2013 | Richland | Autumn Carter | ||
52 | Harry D. Mitts Jr. | White | 61 | M | September 25, 2013 | Cuyahoga | John Bryant and Garfield Heights, Ohio police Sgt. Dennis Glivar | ||
53 | Dennis B. McGuire | White | 53 | M | January 16, 2014 | Preble | Joy Stewart | ||
54 | Ronald Ray Phillips | White | 43 | M | July 26, 2017 | Summit | Sheila Marie Evans | ||
55 | Gary Wayne Otte | White | 45 | M | September 13, 2017 | Cuyahoga | Robert Wasikowski and Sharon Kostura | ||
56 | Robert J. Van Hook | White | 58 | M | July 18, 2018 | Hamilton | David Self |
Race | ||
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White | 37 | 66% |
Black | 19 | 34% |
Age | ||
20–29 | 2 | 4% |
30–39 | 13 | 23% |
40–49 | 29 | 52% |
50–59 | 8 | 14% |
60–69 | 4 | 7% |
Sex | ||
Male | 56 | 100% |
Date of execution | ||
1976–1979 | 0 | 0% |
1980–1989 | 0 | 0% |
1990–1999 | 1 | 2% |
2000–2009 | 32 | 57% |
2010–2019 | 23 | 41% |
2020–2029 | 0 | 0% |
Method | ||
Lethal injection | 56 | 100% |
Governor (Party) | ||
Jim Rhodes (R) | 0 | 0% |
Dick Celeste (D) | 0 | 0% |
George Voinovich (R) | 0 | 0% |
Nancy Hollister (R) | 0 | 0% |
Bob Taft (R) | 24 | 43% |
Ted Strickland (D) | 17 | 30% |
John Kasich (R) | 15 | 27% |
Mike DeWine (R) | 0 | 0% |
Total | 56 | 100% |
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